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When nearly grown they are covered with long blue pin-feathers as long as darning-needles, without a bit of plumage on them.
Then needles, darning wool, cotton, and stockings were scattered all over the verandah, while they rushed away to find Mother.
As for our carpets, they in time were worn threadbare, and patched and darned even to a greater extent than our garments.
In the diagonal tear, as the threads are cut diagonally, to prevent drawing apart, the darning threads must cross each other.
There was once upon a time a darning needle, that imagined itself so fine, that at last it fancied it was a sewing-needle.
All the children had manual training, the girls being taught cooking, sewing and darning, the boys woodwork and carpentry.
Roger looked down with a rueful whistle at his clothes, which, though clean, were patched and darned to the utmost limit.
Our early Ego dies by inches, till, like the perpetually darned sock, it retains nothing but the original mold and shaping.
The sewing of seams, and the darning of household linen, which in his eyes amounted to groaning, was done in his absence.
Darning and patching become an art, until some specimens of their skill in this line could be ranked almost as ornamental needlework.
Fortunately this time it did not matter, for, while Janet was speaking, Rosie's mother had appeared with an armful of darning.
In darning a large hole it is sometimes wise to begin putting in the warp threads at the center first to prevent stretching.
She goes to market with her father's cook, makes delicious pickles and preserves, and hasn't her equal in mending and darning.'
His hat was weather-stained, his clothes were threadbare and even darned in some places, and his boots were rough and clumsy.
Even shirt-collars, gingerbread men, darning-needles, flowers, and sunbeams, he endowed with physiognomies and speech, fairly consistent with their ruling characteristics.
When nearly grown they are covered with long blue pin-feathers as long as darning needles, without a bit of plumage on them.
She carefully put her book on one side and took up some darning, assiduously inserting the needle but without further attempt at work.
To some boys it is repair day, rips are sewed up, buttons sewed on clothing, and for the initiated, the darning of socks.
These persons, stoically erect like statues, in their old darned clothes, were doubtless the grandfather and the grandmother of the criminal.
"Nothing that that darn fool of a manager said to-night can come between you and me," he went on laboriously after a minute.
"He's a first-rate parson, but a darn fool of a horseman," observed Abel, with the disgust of a good driver for a poor one.
As may be seen from the second middle leaf, your darning stitches have to be made over five threads, subdivided into two and three.
The girls have sent specimens of "stocking darning" and of that still more economical and homely employment known as "re-footing old stockings."
I've been so darned positive about everything I've said, I've probably caused Billie to sympathize with her friends more solidly than she would otherwise.
He exclaimed, looking pleased, and surveying her across the narrow table, which the housewife had spread with a much-darned snow-white cloth.
Polly darned stockings, for John's children; Sarah was tatting, with her little finger stuck out at right angles to the rest.
They talk about Cherry street not being fashionable, but I'll be darned if I believe there's a more genteel street in the city.
Nancy, who had been addressed, was darning a pair of stockings, with a small yellow gourd inside to hold the parts in shape.
Certain sewing days in school, called darning days, are sacred to the renovation of worn-out garments which the girls bring from home.
People didn't call Joan of Arc and Grace Darling tomboys, though they did other things besides stay at home and darn stockings.
"It doesn't prick as much as a darning-needle, I fancy, and you'll have to get accustomed to that before long, as I've remarked before."
Elizabeth Ann looked up from this letter and across the table at Aunt Abigail's rosy, wrinkled old face, bent over her darning.
She was the youngest, and consequently a privileged imp, depending upon every one else to mend and darn when her turn came.
There was often a litter of needlework or half-darned stockings on the sofa to be put away before sitting down to butter the biscuits.
Wilbur ardently wished that Winona could have been there to hear this talk, because the peerless young things freely used the expletive "Darn!"
Listening at first without proper alarm, it has been disclosed to me that a cinch binder ain't any joke, by a darned sight!
Coats and trousers, equipped for their last adventure with mysterious darns and patches, cheated the eye like a painted beauty at a ball.
Within three days we'll have our remittance, and mail you the money, and you'll mail us this darned box with my seal unbroken!
The muslin curtains, folded back and pinned together, were darned and yellow with frequent washing and the rust of ancient damp.
She stared at Marcella, forgetting the sock she had just slipped over her left hand, and the darning needle in her right.
The other little girls were now very repentant; and when their fingers were well, they all learned to darn stockings at once.
He was nearly six feet already, with a long thin body and head, which amply justified his school nickname of 'the darning-needle.'
She had gathered together everything from a darning-needle to a tombstone, a small specimen of the latter forming a unit of this heterogeneous whole.
"I should not have believed it of you," he protested; "to attend a darning-party, and to leave not only me, but my socks, outside."
Before him was a mound of garments, and in his hand he held a pair of old velvet breeches which he was darning vigorously.
I know darn well that Perez Soto would like nothing better than to find the Easy Action with no one aboard and scuttle her.
The Jamestown children called them darning-needles; and being assured of their propensity for sewing one's ears up, viewed them with serious apprehension.
She picked them from among the great heap at her work table because of the exquisite fineness of the darning that adorned them.
Should she determine that she would henceforward darn sheets morning, noon, and night till she worked her fingers to the bone?
Human cuss, that you can slip an improper remark to without wishing you had kept your darn mouth shut and concealed your ignorance.
Headley with rapid fingers was darning and patching, aided by Agnes, who sat industriously stitching away, silently buried in her own thoughts.
I never found that people who were learned in logarithms and other kinds of poetry were any quicker in washing dishes or darning socks.
He swung it round his head once, broke an outhouse window with a flying fragment of glass, and ruined the stocking beyond all darning.
I tie a piece of thread into a large darning-needle and supply her with my handkerchief, which she proceeds to sew into a tight ball.
The older woman bent over her darning, and the needle passed, rippling, round a "potato" in the sock which was in her lap.
Then, and only then, would she consent to pass on to the third question, which concerned itself with the vexed question of darning.
Thurgood, looking meditatively at my hands; "I've got just such another patch of darning on my knee," and he pulled up his trouser.
He could darn stockings in a most masterly style, but no one had ever seen him do it, he always did it secretly by himself.
It's darn lonesome without you at the table, and the children's manners are getting something awful, and I never can find my shirts.
Johanna went methodically on with her darning; but the new idea which her mother had dropped into her mind, took root and grew.
As a rock forming mineral it often occurs as long, slender prisms, frequently about the size of a darning needle and radiating in all directions.
She did this with more reluctance, as she foresaw the speedy termination of the gossip, and her consequent relegation to her darning duties.
She chuckled; before she had gone away she had bought new socks for Charles, hiding those she had not found time to darn.
He can hardly fail to catch the steely high voice and proud manner Hans Andersen intended for the vain but delightful Darning Needle.
Grim turned to me at last and smiled in that darned genial way he has when he means to call on your uttermost patience or endurance.
"Come on there, you darned little shrimp; get a move on you," growled the big man from within the frost-fringed hood of his parka.
Yes, my dear, pins and people are alike, and that rusty darning-needle need not stare so rudely, for I shall prove what I say.
I fail to remember the last time I enjoyed a hearty laugh and I know it will be a darned long space before I'll snicker again.
His clothing had been washed and ironed and pressed, and Auntie Sue was making some little repairs in the way of darning and buttons.
He had looked after their clothes and cooked their food; he had sat in the boat with needle and cotton and mended and darned.
Many net embroidery patterns and damask stitches consist of a combination of ordinary running and darning, others of chain, stem and cross stitch.
Works deserving special mention are buttonholes made by Martha Howard of the seventh grade; patching by Lulu Gaston, and darning by Gertrude Williams.
She had scarcely enough to pay for their meager fare, and her own clothes and the children's were almost beyond patching and darning.
Aunt Sarah was in no mood to listen to anything about airships after that; and Dot took her first lesson in darning, there and then.
I had some socks of Henry's I wished to darn, and I should have been much better employed, as I see you already have reached your decision.
Dave had a pretty fair hunch that the Colonel had heard him make that crack to Freddy about it being too darn dangerous in bombers.
The pack contained the means of much mending, and by dinner-time my coat and trousers were patched, and my stockings were stoutly darned.
I suppose you think that all the slaves ought to be free, and all the rest of the darned stuff these Abolitionists are preaching.
When he came home to luncheon he pulled them out of the darning-bag, which he had spied through a closet door that had been left ajar.
Other enterprising sophomores "swatted" flies at the rate of one cent for two, darned stockings for five cents a hole, shampooed, mended, raked leaves.
We fight our souls out over tram-contracts, gas-contracts, road-contracts, and any darned thing that will turn a dishonest dollar, and we call that politics.
If you happen to get into the Ar'tic Circle, say, about two in the morning, you dress yourself and hike out on deck, an' I darn!
She had also made her own dresses, as well as some of her husband's clothes, and darned and patched the latter with cotton flour-bags.
Darn across the rent, drawing the edges close together, and picking up the threads in each row which were passed over in the preceding.
Their old clothes were darned and patched, and darned and patched again and again, so that the Duchess might have pretty things to wear.
As long as Hector paid he naturally was entitled to call as often as he darn pleased, which was about once a day and then some.
The socks to be darned, each already a fantastic patchwork, were piled on the window-sill, where there was room beside for a geranium and a fern.
And she pulled out of her big waterproof pocket a bundle of stockings and a great white ball of darning cotton and a wooden egg.
The Tsar disdained to adorn his person, and was often meanly clad, wearing coarse darned stockings, thick shoes, and studying economy in dress.
Rhodes turned round suddenly, and, finding himself alone, suddenly changed his tone and exclaimed: "My gracious, where has that darned idiot got to?"
Her few dresses also had to be gone over for loose buttons, and the darning of threadbare places was a duty exercising her constant attention.
Tim muttered in a trembling voice, as for the door he run, "Perhaps you think there will be two, but darn me, there's but one!"
Some advocate burning out the wound with a red-hot wire, or darning needle, instead of cutting, but the treatment is less effective and more painful.
The outline of a petal is first worked, and successive rows of darning follow the lines of the flower, expressing to some extent its form.
Desperate villains dropping envelopes and generally scattering clues along their tracks would be interesting things, a darned sight more interesting than eminent reformers.
Though we did not care a darn for the trespass, we fully realized our helpless position in case of an attack, so we pulled for the shore.
Life was just one darned meal after another, we used to say, with spasmodic interludes of work, and then deep, deep, dreamless wells of slumber.
She hoisted it to the sidewalk with some puffing and several "darn its," then started toward the block of houses, north of the pasture.
I had saved up twelve dollars too, and was going to buy Billy's winter clothes and send you five, then the darn thing fell.
I didn't care much for the darn things myself, but the people along the river had proved dead keen for the succulent amber slabs.